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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: Chapter 4-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What two organizations invited Dr. King to speak at the University of California at Berkeley on June 4, 1957?
(a) MIA.
(b) NAACP.
(c) NUL.
(d) YMCA and YWCA.

2. Dr. King reached out to his extensive religious contacts, including the National Baptist Convention, to organize what conference?
(a) Southern Religious Conference.
(b) Montgomery Christian Conference.
(c) Southern Baptist Conference.
(d) Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

3. What Democratic presidential candidate was running against Richard Nixon in 1960?
(a) Dwight D. Eisenhower.
(b) Harry S. Truman.
(c) John Kennedy.
(d) Lyndon B. Johnson.

4. What is the date noted at the beginning of Chapter 4, "Speech Before the Youth March for Integrated Schools"?
(a) 1960.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1961.
(d) 1955.

5. How many students marched toward the Alabama State Capitol Building in Montgomery?
(a) 2,500.
(b) 2,000.
(c) 1,000.
(d) 1,500.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where were the lunch counter sit-ins conducted on August 19 by the NAACP?

2. What became a pseudonym for the Civil Rights Movement?

3. When was the second march supporting racial desegregation held in Washington, D.C.?

4. When was the historic Brown vs. Topeka, Kansas Board of Education Supreme Court decision handed down?

5. What did the assailant ask Dr. King right before his assault on September 20, 1958?

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